In India’s Election, Voters Feed on False Information

New Delhi shop owner Ram Shankar Rai spends at least two hours a day going through political news and videos shared with him on social media.

This photo illustration shows the Whatsapp application logo (C) on a smartphone screen in Beijing.Photographer: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP

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By Associated Press

April 9, 2019 at 12:06 PM UTC

Updated on

April 10, 2019 at 9:45 AM UTC

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New Delhi (AP) -- New Delhi shop owner Ram Shankar Rai spends at least two hours a day going through political news and videos shared with him on social media.

Rai looked intently at a flurry of videos and photos on WhatsApp about an Indian airstrike in Pakistan, including pictures labeled as militants' corpses.